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[Hiring] Senior AI Engineer @Awarri
Feb 12, 2025 - Awarri is hiring a remote Senior AI Engineer. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: Africa.
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Role Description
The Senior AI/ML Engineer will play a central role in the design, development, and deployment of language models tailored to low-resource languages and diverse cultural contexts. They will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to advance Awarri's mission of creating contextually aware and impactful AI solutions.
- Lead the design, training, and optimization of large-scale language models for African languages and dialects, ensuring accuracy and contextual relevance.
- Develop innovative solutions for data pre-processing, tokenization, and embedding, specifically for low-resource and multilingual datasets.
- Implement and fine-tune transformer-based architectures (e.g., GPT, BERT) for specific NLP applications like text generation, translation, and sentiment analysis.
- Design scalable pipelines for data collection, annotation, and pre-processing to support model development.
- Collaborate with linguists, cultural experts, and AI researchers to ensure the LLM aligns with diverse user needs and cultural sensitivities.
- Deploy, monitor, and maintain production-level LLM systems in cloud-based environments, ensuring robust performance and reliability.
- Establish frameworks for model evaluation, leveraging metrics such as perplexity, BLEU, and human-centered benchmarks.
- Stay at the forefront of advancements in NLP, LLMs, and generative AI, integrating emerging research into Awarri's language model development efforts.
- Document processes, architectures, and outcomes for knowledge sharing and collaboration across teams.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years in AI/ML engineering, with a focus on NLP and large language models.
- Strong expertise in transformer-based models such as GPT, BERT, T5, or equivalent.
- Proficiency with frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face Transformers.
- Experience in training and fine-tuning LLMs on large-scale, multilingual datasets.
- Strong programming skills, with expertise in NLP libraries and tools.
Requirements
- Experience in building pipelines for text data collection, pre-processing, and annotation.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP for deploying scalable NLP solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to work on open-ended research problems and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, including linguists and cultural experts.
- A proven track record of developing and deploying NLP systems that deliver measurable value in production.
Preferred Skills
- Experience working with low-resource languages or multilingual NLP.
- Knowledge of cultural and linguistic nuances in African contexts.
- Familiarity with ethical AI principles, particularly for language technologies.
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Software Development
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Africa
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Job Type
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Feb 12, 2025
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